The notion of the circular economy (CE) has recently been put forth as a strategy to mitigate climate change. It has gained attention in policy circles and in the engineering and natural science literature. In contrast to the linear model of production, use and disposal, the point of departure for the CE is the creation and sustention of a regenerative system with the goal of minimising resource inputs and emissions. However, although the emerging literature has discussed the ongoing transition process towards the CE, mainly from an ecological perspective, the underlying mechanisms of industrial change including structural tensions have not been discussed. Responding to this gap in the literature, the aim of this paper is to discuss CE as an evolutionary process and to propose a conceptual framework that builds on a development block approach.

循环经济（CE）的概念最近被提出来作为缓解气候变化的战略。它已在政策界以及工程和自然科学文献中引起关注。与生产，使用和处置的线性模型相反，CE的出发点是创建和维持一个再生系统，其目的是最大程度地减少资源投入和排放。但是，尽管新兴文献主要从生态学角度讨论了向消费电子产品过渡的过程，但尚未讨论包括结构紧张在内的工业变革的潜在机制。针对文学中的这一空白，本文的目的是讨论将CE作为一种进化过程，并提出一个基于开发块方法的概念框架。